Remaining Blockbuster Video locations to close

The remaining Blockbuster Video locations open nationwide will close, including the last store standing in Sarasota.

Blockbuster Video’s parent company, Dish Network, announced today it would close the remaining 300 stores. The last store in Southwest Florida is at 4216 Bee Ridge Road. Local staff are unsure of when the store will close. Once the Bee Ridge store closes, Blockbuster Video will have no other store in the market.

A Blockbuster store on 17th Street in Sarasota closed for good in March, offering cheap deals on the remaining movie titles a month before it shuttered.

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010, after struggling with new competitors like Redbox and Netflix.

Photo by Eric Blackburn, Herald-Tribune staff.

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